UCL INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY & MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL
Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow
Ocular Immunology, Immune Cell Imaging, Spatial Biology & Biomarkers
Research projects
Multiplexed Tissue Imaging
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
Applying new tissue imaging approaches to the study of retinal diseases
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
We are leading a clinical study to identify unknown infections in patients with Uveitis
Imaging Immune Cells
Metagenomic Sequencing for Uveitis
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Using the eye as a tool to study immune responses at a single cell level
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
We conducted a clinical study (BIRD-SET) to better understand this form of Uveitis
Glaucoma Research
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Immune Responses to AAV
Investigating the biology of Glaucoma and developing a new Gene Therapy approach
Immune Responses to AAV
Birdshot Chorioretinopathy
Immune Responses to AAV
Improving retinal gene therapy by addressing local immune responses
Dr Colin Chu
Colin is an academic ophthalmologist at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital funded by the Wellcome Trust as a Clinical Research Career Development Fellow.
He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge prior to medical school at Oxford University and undertook his PhD at UCL with Prof Robin Ali. Subsequently he moved to the University of Bristol as a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer working with Prof Andrew Dick.
He has spent time in the US at the University of Rochester hosted by Dr Jesse Schallek, and as a Fulbright scholar at the National Institutes of Health working with Dr Ron Germain on advanced tissue imaging approaches.
His ongoing research spans spatial biology applications, gene therapy, in vivo imaging of immune cells using adaptive optics, OCT and fluorescent dye labelling to better understand ocular inflammation. He is Chief Investigator of several clinical studies underway at Moorfields.
He is an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital with his clinical practice in Uveitis.
See the latest publications from the lab linked here.
Past & Present lab members
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Bruno Charbit (Senior Research Associate)
Zuzanna Dzieniak (Research Associate)
Yuxuan Meng (PhD student)
Lorna Fowler (PhD student)
Rose Avient (PhD student)
Kuba Kubiak (PhD student)
Jason Hopley (PhD student)
Dr Shivaa Ramsewak (Clinical Research Fellow)
Dr Achini Makuloluwa (Clinical PhD fellow with Jim Bainbridge)
UCL & Moorfields Alumni
Chuxuan Jin (BSc student)
Dahar Syed (Intercalated BSc)
Gabriel Bellamy Plaice (Visiting PhD student with Lisa Hill)
Dr Anamika Patel (Clinical Fellow) - now at LV Prasad, India
Dr Ioannis Papasavvas (Clinical Fellow) - now at COS, Lausanne, Switzerland
Curtis Chan (BSc student) - now MSc student at KCL
Linyulong Li (MSc student) - now PhD student, SMART, Shenzhen, China
Chaoran Li (BSc student) - now PhD student at Columbia University, USA
Dr Yuan Tian (Research Fellow)
Greg Patient (MSc student)
Helmut Yeung (BSc student)
Changtai Li (BSc student) - now PhD student, China
University of Bristol Alumni
Dr John Pooley (Senior Research Associate)
Dr Dishant Sharma (Research Associate)
Alison Young (Senior Research Technician)
Marta Mergulhao (Research Technician)
Oli Bell (PhD student)
Dr Jiahui Wu (Research Associate)
Beth Fitzgerald (MSc student)
Owen Hollings (MSc student)
Rachel Evans (MSc student)
KEY Collaborations
- Dr Ron Germain, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, MD, USA
- Dr Jesse Schallek, ARIA, University of Rochester, NY, USA
- Prof Andrew Dick, University of Bristol and UCL IoO
- Dr Ryan MacDonald, UCL IoO
- Prof Marinko Sarunic, UCL IoO
- Dr Angelos Kalitzeos, UCL IoO
- Dr Lizzy Rosser & Dr Lola Solebo, UCL and GOSH
- Dr Lisa Hill, Dr Chris McConville & Prof Alastair Denniston, University of Birmingham
- Prof Sarah Coupland, University of Liverpool
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